Meaningless? Yeah, I'm not feeling meaningless. No matter how this weekend shapes up.

Good morning to you. Good Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is

Daily Shot of Steelers presented by our friends at the Fandul Sportsbook. Hope everyone had a

happy and healthy and all that other good stuff. Christmas, I know we certainly did here

with the kids back home and all kinds of just wonderful, wonderful memories from the past

72 hours. Kind of thing that remind you of what's, you know, really important in life.

What's really important in football, what's really important to the Steelers. And this is the first

time I'm going to word it like this, is having a successful run in the

playoffs.

Now, what constitutes a successful run?

How does that get defined?

Who defines it?

To what extent should Mike Tomlin's recent better part of a decade of playoff failure

be weighed up against it? I don't know. I don't know. I do feel like you've got to win a game

and you've got to look like you at least belonged there.

Those two traits alone would set it off dramatically from anything we've seen since Chris

Boswell kicked all those field goals in Kansas City forever ago.

Because they haven't won since then, more often than not they've been blown

to bits every time they've participated and as I began discussing about a week ago how the

Steelers get there how they arrive into those playoffs matters a ton think about it How many of these playoff losses in these recent years

have been at home? A couple, no more than that. Off the top of my head, I can think of Jacksonville,

I can think of Cleveland in the COVID year, and that's about it. Being at home, which the Steelers,

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